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Status: Duplicate
Merged: issue 883038
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Closed: Nov 20
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Removal of 'non-trivial' url portions!

Reported by w...@skillsactive.org.nz, Nov 15

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I just wanted to give you a big thanks from the spammer and the phisher community! Thanks Google, we love you... keep up the bad work. It's like you actually make these changes specifically to enable scammers to rip people off even easier... and for that we really love you! Just keep doing what you're doing... you're really, really helping us scammers make a lot of money from ignorant people. We love you Google, we don't know why you like us so much but we ain't gonna complain! To make it clear: I'm not a scammer - but a person who I know who was (and now works in security), just demonstrated to me VERY clearly why this idea is not very good at all. I can't believe that a corporation as large as Google and supposedly technically proficient could be so short-sighted and ignorant of the security issues that this change you are going to force on your users will have. Will Google be paying back the money to those people who are stolen from because of this change? Or is this just another social experiment being performed on millions of people... you know the way you tech companies do... ignore the spirit (and the letter) of the law when it suits you. We won't even talk about decency being as that hasn't been seen around here for a decade or so...!
 
I wrote the above, whilst full of ire, but the reality is, is that this move weakens many of the protections afforded users by Chrome. For little benefit - the risk-reward ratios don't balance well to my mind. Honestly, I don't understand why this isn't just offered to the user (noticeably!) as an option. I think this 'nannying' that Google has seems to be doing more and more of as times goes on is why Vivaldi is gaining such a market share and so quickly - simply because it offers easy solutions, without also removing the ability of users' to still fine-tune if they wish. Google Chrome seems to enforce Google's choice of browsing habits instead of the users' (my own) selection. 
So, I guess my question is: is there a means to set a flag to disallow this?
Project: chromium
Moved issue monorail:4563 to now be  issue chromium:906471 .
Components: UI>Browser>Omnibox
Status: Unconfirmed (was: New)
Mergedinto: 883038
Status: Duplicate (was: Unconfirmed)
The behavior in question can be controlled via the chrome://flags/#omnibox-ui-hide-steady-state-url-trivial-subdomains flag. But note that this is not guaranteed to work long-term.

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